LaundroMat's comments

On: Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads

[LaundroMat]

Maybe the law should impose quality and environmental standards instead of tariffs. But no, that would hurt domestic businesses.

On: RFK Jr says Deep State 'is real,' called FDA employees 'sock puppet' of industry

[LaundroMat]

A civil servant's job is not just to do what the executive branch asks them to do.

[ImJamal → LaundroMat]

I wasn't clear. I am talking about stuff like this

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nps-twitter-account-shut-d...

You should be doing your job not creating hatred towards your boss.

On: Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results

[LaundroMat]

I don't know whether you can tie that inflation to ubi-like measures(alone). The whole world suffered high inflation, not in the least because of the global disruption of the supply chain.

On: Village Roadshow Entertainment has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

[LaundroMat]

The latter.

(I really liked both movies by the way).

On: Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

[LaundroMat]

Paying for results sounds efficient, until you start thinking about what those results should be and how you'd prevent policy makers anyone politicizing them and educational institutions from gaming them.

[trilbyglens → LaundroMat]

This. So how do you compare physics outcomes with humanities outcomes or creative fields of study versus science or engineering?

"Success" is often neither quantifiable nor immediately obvious.

On: The 2005 Sony Bravia ad

[LaundroMat]

Suppose you lived in a village where there was no outside news. You'd learn of about two murders and a dozen deadly accidents in your lifetime. Imagine how safer you'd feel compared to a villager who's getting outside news beamed to her face every hour of the day.

I'm not advocating isolation, but our primitive minds are not able to really understand that what is projected in front of us is not the same as what happens in front of us. I don't know how anyone could solve that.

On: Save Act would require all Americans prove citizenship when registering to vote

[LaundroMat]

Maybe the next step is the introduction of tests to see whether you are a true American in thought and appearance before an ID is issued.

[Eddy_Viscosity2 → LaundroMat]

Or, that you are only allowed to vote if you can prove you have previously voted for the correct party in a past election. Anything else is unamerican.

On: Electric-truck maker Nikola files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

[LaundroMat]

I'm amazed too because I had a genuine Mandela-effect moment here. I really thought they'd had gone bankrupt years ago.

On: The McKinley Years

[LaundroMat]

I stumbled upon The Knick (2014) recently, a Steven Soderbergh directed two-season series about a hospital in 1900's New York.

It is truly visionary as it is the perfect picture of the Golden Age the current administration seems to long back to.

On: At least 10 killed after vehicle hits crowd of people in New Orleans

[LaundroMat]

Shouldn't that be "vocabulary nazi mode"? :p